[lit-ideas] Freud & Dostoevsky
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:47:01 -0800
I meant Fyodor not Fodor. That changes everything, doesn’t it?
H. Stuart Hughes allowed his interpretation of Social thought to be influenced
by Freud & Freud was a great admirer of Fyodor Dostoevsky. I slip in and out
of appreciation for Freud. Hughes appreciated Freud, and I admire Hughes
(despite his once having been president of Sane) and I find myself more willing
to spend time with Freud than with Dostoevsky. I believe I read Crime and
Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov three times each and almost everything
else at least once. I had in mind rereading Dostoevsky after I retired, but
have only managed Notes from the Underground (back in 2000).
I could appreciate Dostoevsky back in the days when I had only one overcoat and
would brush it as Raskolnikov did his. Now I would rather read meta-works on
Society and History, and Freud’s lectures on psychoanalysis.
Lawrence
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Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 8:50 AM
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: meta-passing by?
Donal
Thanks for clearing that up. Now that I see your example I recall some others
like that but I didn’t pay much attention to them – people just don’t pay
enough attention, do they. But if a bunch of such things have occurred all at
once, I can see how a person more attentive than I am might begin to wonder
about conspiracies and strange coincidences. Why, now that I think about it,
this very day in 2006 six men stage Britain’s biggest robbery, 53 million
pounds, and think of all the trouble that caused. And just last year, on
February 22nd, 185 people were killed in a 6.3 magnitude earthquake at
Christchurch. And again, on this very same day in Roslin Scotland in 1997 a
sheep named Dolly was cloned. Granted, some people won’t see the connection,
but then they never do, do they?
Lawrence,
Having already read Fodor
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Behalf Of Donal McEvoy
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 6:56 AM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: meta-passing by?
My previous post was an example of the posting I was querying, which simply
reposts someone else's post without adding anything further. Obviously I was
posting like this to give an example of this, but what are other people doing
when they post like this (a v recent one was Mike's)? [Endorsement? Mistake?]
Donal
Who wouldn't let it lie
And is trying to avoid reading Fodor
Ldn
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To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, 21 February 2012, 20:04
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: passing by?
On 21-Feb-12, Lawrence Helm wrote:
> ... I've been trying to catch up and figure out who these ghost-posters are.
> ... I have mellowed and haven't started a political argument in ages.
> Therefore, Lit-Ideas may be completely safe ...
I can't help but observe that this was posted on the anniversary of the first
publication of what is certainly one of the most argumentative of political
documents (Feb. 21st, 1848).
Ghost posters? Could the spectre of political argument still be haunting
Lit-Ideas? ;-)
Chris Bruce,
mellowing along with his former sparring partners
(to whom he raises a cordial glass of cheer), in
Kiel, Germany
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